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...When sleek black identification card readers replaced the old paper grids on checkers' desks in September, some house masters were skeptical about the future of relations between staff and students...
Edward Ruscha's "Sweets, Meets, Sheets" (1975), presented as a sleek Madison Avenue advertising image, pokes fun at the commercialization of sex in selling products. The vertical composition of Hershey's Kisses, beef flank and packaged bedsheets on a red satin background demeans the conspicuous consumption of flesh, advertising and materialistic goods...
Kyle Snowden, a sleek 6'5" forward, is the prototypical example of this. Only a sophomore, he is second in the Ivy League in field goal percentage (54.9 percent), third in rebounding (7.3 boards per game), eighth in scoring (13.3 points per game), and ninth in free throw percentage (71.9 percent). Moreover, he leads Harvard in blocked shots...
Showing off a sleek new coif for evening that required a liberal amount of gel, the PRINCESS OF WALES arrived in New York City last week to present an award to Harper's Bazaar editor LIZ TILBERIS at a ceremony sponsored by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Stylemakers and supermodels, including Claudia Schiffer, gushed over Diana's new look, while rumors continued to swirl that she was planning to move to New York and work for Bazaar. Clearly, that would suit model Lauren Hutton, who shouted, "We want you here!" to the princess in the middle...
...cover of this year's Courses of Instruction, a sleek stylization of a computer network is superimposed on an image of Old Harvard Yard. Inside, the description tells us that this "cover design celebrates the deployment of a high-speed communications network [that] links the resources of the traditional Harvard to the technology of the future." If recent experience is to forbode anything, this "technology of the future" has the ability to send us all to the Mental Health Service, jail, or both. Harvard's computer systems are clearly not being managed effectively...